The town center in King Farm, a 440-acre

The town center in King Farm, a 440-acre traditional neighborhood development in Rockville, Maryland, is scheduled to begin construction in the spring of 1999. The town center will include a 60,000 square foot grocery store, with an entrance facing a parking lot on the interior of a block. Instead of blank walls facing the streets, however, there will be smaller retail establishments in an L-shaped “liner” configuration. Above the shops will be apartments. Pedestrians around the town square, therefore, will be surrounded by small stores with second story residential units — a true main street environment. The supermarket will serve as an anchor store that is accessible to cars and pedestrians, yet will be designed not to disrupt the urban fabric.